ROYALTY AND YACHTING.
In his practice of sometimes taking charge of his yacht Britannia in races in the Solent, the King follows the lead of Britain’s first Royal yachtsman. Charles 11. who became enamoured with the sport while in exile in Holland, and who sought to popularise it when he came to the throne in England. The diarist. John Evelyn, in 1661, wrote .the first account of an English yneht race between Charles and his brother James, Duke of York. Both steered their own craft oyer n course from Gravesend to Greenwich and back for a wager of £lOO. the race going to tlie King by a handsome margin. Evelyn added that the yachts used were gifts to King Charles from the. Dutch East,lndies Company, a type of craft that he said were “unknown among us.” Charles, however, believed in encouraging home industry, for he afterward had no fewer than fourteen yachts built for his use, one being from his own design.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 34, 3 November 1933, Page 18
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162ROYALTY AND YACHTING. Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 34, 3 November 1933, Page 18
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